Tom Lyon

You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/. You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/.Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button!Some of the highlights of the show include:Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tubeMercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memoryDatapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DatapointDatapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapointARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNETAppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalkZ8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCCApple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriterDECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnetX.25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25Tom's notes from the NFS offsite in 1983: https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutomounterCAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theoremSun's Network Disk (nd) protocol: https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h (if you find nd(4P) from the SunOS 3.x man pages, let us know!)The Internet Collapse of 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapseLarry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelenetTandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_ComputersToken ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ringIpsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_NetworksFDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_InterfaceCrescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_seriesOnes' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complementIBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_seriesHP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_seriesHP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370APL\360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360IBM 2741 with APL keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPGVM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnibusInterdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterdataGreg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossannanroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NroffIBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTSIBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270Dick Lyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._LyonMAXC, PARC's PDP-10 clone: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.htmlBerkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_GenieBob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98Optical mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouseThe Oxide garage Sun art work of mysterious origin (a Sun-3/160, perhaps?): https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpgSteve Kirsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_KirschDick Lyon's (color!) technical report on the optical mouse: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdfIpsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_NetworksATM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_modeAndy Bechtolsheim on "Death to ATM" (July 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.htmlTom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/Open Source Firmware Conference: htt...